BATE didn't exactly recover, and neither did Koeln which is hardly surprising given the season they are having. Cervena zvezda through, and as such the only side this season to being in the first round of qualifying and reach the knock-out rounds.

Adrian is a better goalkeeper than Hart and unless he starts chucking in a couple of goals a game Hart had better get used to the bench. Chelsea have been utterly shit, the lazy pundit claims about Hazard being in Messi and Ronaldo class looking like the overblown drivel they are.

i stumbled upon the BT Sport equivalent of Soccer Saturday for the first time today. It was terrifying. At one point Mark Pougatch got up, walked over to Gary McAllister, bent over and repeatedly shouted at him. Then he went and sat down and started shouting at him again. Some other people were shouting at Paul Ince, taking the piss at Tom Ince being shit at scoring goals. Paul Ince shouted back. Someone was reading out tweets and fantasy football stats. Mark Pougatch shouted everything. Maybe they were all shouting to make themselves heard over the incredibly loud fake crowd noise swirling around the studio.

I had all this going on through the speakers of a home cinema system. It was like the first bit of Saving Private Ryan.

He also used to do 606 - he might still do so, I don't know, cos his involvement put the final nail in the coffin of my listening to it.

Also, either on 606 or on one of those documentary pieces they do occasionally, the subject was how much players earn. The bit where he talked through the sequence of his numerous yacht purchases was enough to cause a socialist uprising if enough people listened to it, so they evidently didn't.

Is that a real accent? It’s like he went to generic sports broadcaster school. But with added “emotion”. You can smell the Brexit off him, him and Tyldesley both. Kind of fucks that want the anthem played at the end of the night in pubs and picture houses, all for National Service they never had to undergo.